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Between Culture and Poverty: The Queen Mother Phenomenon and the Edo International Sex Trade

The international sex trade now has crucial national and global significance. This recourse to a more sophisticated trans-national sex trade in Africa’s most populous nation has been increasingly ascribed to the Edo people of southern Nigeria because Edo State, populated by the Bini and its sub-groups, became the hub of international sex trade in Nigeria. This trade, which began in the mid-1980s, involved the trafficking of young girls across international borders to serve as foreign exchange-earning sex workers in different countries. In consequence, strategies adopted by Mrs. Eki Igbinedion—…